Combined rail tie and fastener.



J. H. BENNER.

COMBINED RAIL TIE AND FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-21. 1914.

1,156,581 Patented Oct. 12, 1915.

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F i I I I WITNESSES INVENTOR 6i, amesJfBcn 11611 ATTORNEY J. H. BENNER.

COMBINED RAIL TIE AND FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED Aue.21.1914.

1 l 5 6,58 l Patented Oct. 12, 1915.

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siding illlfx kllQl'lf illl i/llge. county of Summit 1 and State ofOhio, have inwented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined RailTies and Fasteners, of which the fol j lowing isaspecification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This lnvention relates to comhlned rail "i316 and fastener and hasfQQ'LiitSlObjeQt to-proride, in a manner as hereinafterset forth, a tiefor supportlng' a track rail and further a supporting 11118 havangrassociated therewith for fastening the track rail in po: sition withrespect to the tie without the employment of nuts and bolts.

Further objects, of the invention are to provide a comblned rail tie andfastener which is simple in its construction and ar can be resorted towhich come within the scope of the claimshereunto appended.

In the drawings wherein like reference characters denote 7 throughoutthe several views :Figure 1 is an end elevation of a rail fastener. Fig.2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of oneend of a tie. Fig. 4 is a V transverse sectional View of a tie. Fig. 5is a top plan view of-a tie, broken away. .Figs. 6 and 7 are enlargeddetailed perspective views of one of the clamping members. Fig. 8 is anenlarged detailed perspective View of a section of the rail tie. I

The tie which is formed from a metallic body includes a bottom 1, a pairof side walls :2, which at the end are of greater height, as at 3, thantheir intermediate portions.

Each of the side walls 2 is provided throughout with an inwardlyextending flange and the said flanges of the said side walls 2 areindicated at 4, 5. Each of the flanges 4, 5, near each of its ends,(only one end shown) is cut away to provide a notch anaemia nae .41 1 sa twp-2 826- corresponding parts as N w 0 on: l

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Shaving oppositely extending inclined end walls 7, 8 Thetlange 1 isconnected to the flange 5 by. a transverse coupling member 9 which isdisposed centrally with respect to the opposed notches 6 and divideseach' notchfi into apairlof recesses each provided with an inclined'endwall and a straight end'wall, the latter being indicated at 1.0, and theformer provided by .one'vof the inclinedy walls ,7, nThfi couplingmember 9 centrally thereof ,is formed with pair of centrally disposedlateralprojectors 11, 12 each inclined downwardly and which hasleachaend :under cut .as indicated at '13. The" coupling member 9 isadapted to support a track rail and the latter includes a base 1 1, web15, and head 16. The coupling member 9 is of the same width as the widthof the v base 14 and the lateral projectors 11, 12,

project outwardlywith respect to the lon gitudinal edges of the base Il.

The track is clamped to the tie through the medium of two pairs of railfasteners and the rail fasteners of each pair are indicated by thereference characters 17, 18. The rail fasteners .17, as well as the railfasteners 18, include a head 19, l1aving one,

end thereof beveled as at 20, and the other plane as at 21. One side ofthe head 19 is formed with a clainpingjaw 22, having a plane inner wall23, and plane bottom wall 2d and an upward inclined top wall 25.

The other side of the head 19 is forme'dwith a clamping jaw 26, having aplane lower 99 which forms the continuation of the beveled end 2'0 andgreatly decreases in width downward. The shank 29 terminates in aninwardly projecting right angular extension 30 which is peripherallythreaded. The

threads'upen the extension 30 of the fastener '17 are oppositelydisposed with respect to the threads upon the extension 30 of thefastener 18 thereby setting up right andleft threads which are adaptedto be engaged by a turn buckle 81 whereby when the latter is shifted,the fasteners 17, 18 will be moved apart or drawn toward each other,depending in what direction the buckle 31 is shifted.

When the rail fasteners are set up with respect to the tie and base 14:,one wall of the jaw 26 bears against. an inclined wall of a recess,while the plane end wall 23 of the jaw 22 is positioned against theplane end wall10 of the recess. The upper wall 28 and lower wall 27 ofthe jaw 26 strad-v dles a flange 4:, 5, depending with which flange thefastener associates, and the upper 51 wall 25' of the jaw .22 over-lapsthe base,

flange 14;, While the lower wall 24: of the v said jaw 22 over-lapsthe'ooupling member 9. When the railfasteners are in; position the shank17 engages the under out ends-of the? projections 11, 12. Theturnblickle 31 provides mean s it'or shifting the rail fastenerstosnugly'engage With're'spect to the flanges l, 5, coupling member 9,and base 14:. gThe ends of the tie body (only one is I Copies or thispatent may befobtained for 5 shown) have arranged therein curved bridgeand the one end wall'thereofbeing loeveled,-

one of said jaws having flat right angularl bottom, inner side and topWalls, and the a other of said jaws havingfiat right angular Vbottom'and inner sidewalls and an upwardly and outwardly beveled topwall, a downwardly and outwardly inclined eXten% sion formed on thereferred to end wallof J the head and providing a continuation forthebeveled end wall and having a threaded lateral projection at the freeend thereof, and a, turnbuokleffor engagement with said threadedprojection to connect thesamewith 1 another member. 1

y, :111 testimony whereof I aifix my signatnre in thepresence' of twowitnesses. I i s r JAMES H. BENNER, VVithess'es: f V

G. W. AU EN, j s W W. BIGLER. 1

T Vents each, y addressing the. Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D.0. 3 V o

